Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than freedom fighters. Clad in black cotton bellbottoms, draped with carbines and bandoleers, each of them wearing a tattoo that reads Sat Cong ("Kill Communists") on their chests, the "junkmen" look like tough customers. They have girls in every port, they dine on grilled octopus stewed in rotten fish sauce, they swipe fish from passing customers, and they claim to have searched 200,000 boats last year. But of the 830,000 persons aboard, only 1,850 were arrested, a mere 21 confirmed as Viet Cong infiltrators...
Pompano & Postponement. The President also presided over an elegant state dinner in Moro's honor (the fish course was listed on the menu as Pompano Moro), participated in a notably laudatory exchange of toasts. Lyndon: "I salute you as a friend and companion, as a leader in the community of Europe, as a wise and respected voice on the stage of the world." Moro: "We hope that all of your endeavors, so enlightened and outward-looking both in the domestic and foreign fields, may prove effective and fruitful...
...announced that it will double the size (cost: $6,000,000) of its Elkhart citric-acid plant, whose production has already made Miles Laboratories the second U.S. producer of citric acid (after Pfizer), with sales to the companies that make everything from baby formulas to salted nuts and frozen fish...
...glitter and glamour, it might have been the premiere of a new Fellini film. Row after row of limousines pulled up, cameras clicked on all sides, and the chic, smartly dressed guests sipped Scotch and martinis as they ogled a pop art exhibition that included plastic turkeys, fish, steaks and a display of Andy Warhol's stacked Brillo Boxes. There were roughly 500 Ibs. of real food per person-and no wonder. The bash that brought out Rome's smart set last week was the opening of Italy's largest supermarket, a two-story...
Faltering Will. Southern resistance to Negro equality took a form that would today be called guerrilla warfare: a network of secret cells, random terrorism, assassination, intensive propaganda, and armed irregular units able to melt into the population like Mao Tse-tung's celebrated fish. The resistance was successful-like all other guerrilla movements that have succeeded-only because of a faltering of will and a turning away from the struggle by the Federal Government...